On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:25:47AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > On 27/12/13 00:28, Dan McGee wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Pierre Neidhardt <[email protected]>wrote: > > > >> pacsearch "Add[s] color and install information to a pacman -Ss search". > >> This contrib script has last been updated for pacman 3.2 if I recall > >> correctly. Since pacman now comes with color support, I feel like this > >> script > >> has become obsolete. Beside being redundant, it is slower and colors are > >> somewhat less readable (as subjective as it may be). > >> > > > > Did it require regular updates past 3.2 to still work? I've still been > > using it without problems. > > > > The biggest reason I use it is to search -Ss and -Qs output at the same > > time, not for color. As far as I know this still doesn't happen with any > > combination of pacman flags. > > It sort of does... Well, installed packages in the repos are listed as > such: > > allan@arya ~ > > pacman -Ss glibc > core/glibc 2.18-11 (base) [installed] > GNU C Library > extra/nss-mdns 0.10-5 > glibc plugin providing host name resolution via mDNS
But because it also searches pacman -Qs, you would get packages that are not in a repository as well (so most people's AUR packages, unless they make a local repo for it). > > > > Also, citation required for "slower" claim. This is likely due to the > > aforementioned two operations instead of the single one you are comparing > > against. > > > > -Dan > > > > -- William Giokas | KaiSforza | http://kaictl.net/ GnuPG Key: 0x73CD09CF Fingerprint: F73F 50EF BBE2 9846 8306 E6B8 6902 06D8 73CD 09CF
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